Objectivist Ousted

Sherman Dorn calls attention to an essay by Tara Sweeney of The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) on why Ashland University’s denial of tenure to objectivist historian and classicist John D. Lewis was so outrageous.

Lewis appealed the denial, hired a lawyer, and eventually struck a deal with the university. Ashland granted him tenure on the condition that he resign, effective in May of 2008. He’s on leave from Ashland until then and will spend 2007-08 in a visiting appointment at Bowling Green State University, in Ohio.

Chronicle reporter David Glenn has the story.